Prelude  Deck Yourself, My Soul, with Gladness      Johann Crüger/ Aaron David Miller

Welcome & Announcements 

Opening Prayer

Gathering  Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying 

Lord, listen to your children praying,

Lord, send your Spirit in this place;

Lord, listen to your children praying,

Send us love, send us pow'r, send us grace.

Call to Worship (from Luke 13:29)

People will come from east and west,

from north and south,

and will eat in the kingdom of God.

Thanks be to God for welcoming us to the table.

Opening Hymn #461 God is Here

Prayer of Confession

Gracious God, we are indebted to you and your generosity. But we fail to live as good stewards of all you have given us. We confiscate and consume far more than our fair share. We neglect the poor and trap people in poverty, claiming that debt forgiveness is unfair. God, liberate us from our spiritual and moral bondage. Free our world for jubilee. Reorder our priorities so all your nations and peoples may thrive. Amen.

Assurance of Pardon

Gloria Patri

Children's Sermon

Children are invited to go to Children’s Worship with our Children’s Worship Leader. Children will return to their parents during the final hymn.

Call to Offering 

Offertory Broken for Me       Janet Lunt

Doxology

Prayer of Dedication

Scripture Reading: Exodus 17:1-7

Anthem  Come to the Table          Allen Pote

Come, come, come to the table and bring your joy,

bring all your gladness and come, come, come to the table.

Eat the bread, drink the wine, come rejoice in the Lord.

Bring all your sorrow, bring all your pain, bring all the heartaches you bear.

Bring who you are and hope to become,

come to the table to share.

Come, come, come to the table, remember Christ,

remember His love when you come, come, come to the table.

Come in faith, come to serve, come rejoice in the Lord.

Share in the bread, share in the wine, share in the risen Lord.

Share as a family, one in community, one in the Name of the Lord.

Come, come, come to the table to follow Christ forgiven and free,

you must come, come, come to the table.

Come in faith, come in love, come, rejoice in the Lord.

Come, rejoice in the Lord, rejoice in the Lord.

Scripture Reading: Matthew 21:23-32

Hymn #506 Deck Yourself, My Soul, with Gladness

Sermon: "It Depends on Where You're Standing"

Celebration of the Lord’s Supper

One: The Lord be with you.

Many: And also with you.

One: Lift up your hearts.

Many: We lift them to the Lord.

One: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

Many: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

One: It is truly right and our greatest joy to give you thanks and praise, O Lord our God, creator and ruler of the universe. Even when we were dust, when our story begins in dust, you were there, your word was there, your breath into the lifeless void. And upon your word all creation sprang into life.

When we were in the wilderness, terrified, timid, you were there, your word was there, with manna just enough for today, with water even from the driest rock, with the abundant grace upon which our story always rests.

And when we fell short, slaves to power and greed, you were there, your word was there, on the lips of prophets, and in the hearts of servants, in stories of revolution and revelation and liberation, calling us even now to acts of courage and witness and peace.

Therefore we praise you, joining our voices with choirs of angels, with prophets, apostles, and martyrs, and with all the faithful of every time and place, who forever sing to the glory of your name:

Many: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

One: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Indeed blessed are you, O Christ, our Lord, for risking yourself among us, vulnerable and rejected; for teaching among us, teaching the radical hope of God; teaching grace to a world bent on vengeance, teaching love to a world bent on destruction, teaching peace to a world bent on tearing itself apart.

You were there, your word was there, even to the point of death itself. Even faced with terror and hatred and the brokenness of the world, you rose again, to new life, to new creation, to resurrection, that we might know something other than the dust, that we might expect something other than the end, that we might work for something other than ourselves.

And so you speak to us us again, with these abundant gifts of bread and wine, with which we joyfully celebrate your dying and rising, as we await the table of the Kingdom yet to come, and as we dedicate ourselves again to you, thankful, and transformed, as living and holy sacrifices, that our lives may proclaim the one crucified and risen.

Great is the mystery of faith:

Many: Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.

Pastoral Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Affirmation of Faith- Apostles’ Creed- (Page 14 in Blue Hymnal)

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,

the Creator of heaven and earth,

And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,

who was conceived of the Holy Spirit,

born of the Virgin Mary,

suffered under Pontius Pilate,

was crucified, died, and was buried.

He descended into hell.

The third day He arose again from the dead.

He ascended into heaven

and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,

from whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,

the holy catholic church,

the communion of saints,

the forgiveness of sins,

the resurrection of the body,

and life everlasting.

Amen.

Closing Hymn #514 Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ

Benediction

Postlude   Now the Silence           Carl Schalk/Michael Helman